wiki.niziak.spox.org - linux:prepare

Console

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-23T12:57:07+00:00

Console Set mode for GRUB and Kernel GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep" GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768,auto sudo update-grub List of gfx modes can be checked by “vbeinfo” grub command“ Set console encoding and fonts dpkg-reconfigure console-setup UTF-8, Latin-2, Terminus,

Firefox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-26T06:59:54+00:00

Firefox certificate problem, but option to accept anyway has gone “accept certificate” “self-signed certificate” * about:config * browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert to true * security.certerrors.permanentOverride to true Disable Detachable Tabs in Mozilla Firefox

IO schedulers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-01-06T19:36:26+00:00

IO schedulers single queue schedulers There are 2 queues, one for read & one for write operations. * none is just a First In First Out standard queue of I/O operations (it still merges some requests). * cfq (Completely Fair Scheduling) is similar to the Round Robin algorithm and basically allots a fixed execution time for each I/O operation (they are implemented as a circular queue)

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-07T11:28:09+00:00

perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Warning is shown on remote system when user is connected using SSH (user host locale are forwarded to remote machine which doesn't support it) perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_MONETARY = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_CTYPE = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_COLLATE = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_MEASUREMENT = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_NUMERIC = "pl_PL.UTF-8", LC_PAPER…

Logitech wireless mouse/trackball

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-01T12:30:58+00:00

Logitech wireless mouse/trackball To handle old (not Unifying Receiver) Logitech product: sudo apt-get install lomoco sudo lomoco -i 003.005: 046d:c508 Receiver for Cordless Optical TrackMan (C-BA4-MSE) Caps: CSR SMS Receiver type: C508 Mouse type: Cordless Optical TrackMan Connect button on mouse pressed: no Active RF Channel: 1 Battery status: 7 (full) Cordless security ID: 0x8e16 Receiver talking: yes Lock Request (CONNECT button pressed): no Mouse Powerup (First time out of th…

Network Manager

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-13T07:07:34+00:00

Network Manager Disable resolv.conf update To prevent NM form destroying content of resolv.conf: [main] ... dns=none ... nmcli con reload Excluding interfaces Do not touch any interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false

Linux: Prepare

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-01-06T09:53:12+00:00

Linux: Prepare Basic .bashrc Adapt old .bashrc to latest distro /etc/skel/.bashrc default EDITOR sudo update-alternatives --list editor sudo update-alternatives --config editor set umask In file: ~/.profile * umask 002 (default), RW for user, RW for group and R for others - create dirs as 775 and files as 664

X Window system

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-09-19T06:13:26+00:00

X Window system based on XFCE Font smoothing * Settings -> Appearance --> (it works only for XFCE desktop)